Word: altered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week Interstate Commerce Commissioner Joseph Bartlett Eastman appeared as a witness before the House Committee to give specifications for starting the inquiry. His general complaint was that the I. C. C. could handle railroads but that it lacked any legal authority to deal with their financial alter egos which acquire rail stocks, scramble them together in defiance of the I. C. C. and, for all practical purposes, produce consolidations which the I C. C. has prohibited. The Commission, he said, is thus rapidly losing control over consolidations. He asked for legislation to break up the present practice...
...beet sugar states- combined to protest any vote on sugar, lest, somehow, it be reduced below the possible maximum (3? per Ib.) set by the House Bill. A third section of the House - regular eastern Republicans - wanted the bill sent directly to conference without any voting which might alter their expensive handiwork. Among these contending forces, G. 0. P. leaders struggled to effect an agreement...
...applying Case 1 to Earth it is necessary to alter the globe to some extent. We must imagine it a perfect sphere, devoid of any flattening at the poles, devoid of hills, dales. On such a sphere the gravitational pull at any two points equidistant from the surface is equal. If we further assume that this sphere is a charged body the electrical forces will everywhere be symmetrical. These conditions exist approximately on Earth. To such a sphere and to the two pairs of forces acting on it the parent field equations of Einstein were applied, found to bear...
...Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...
...Christ, as to His atoning work, His resurrection, His personal return, or any other doctrine of the Presbyterian Church . . . the new board at its first meeting made the following corporate declaration: '. . . the temporary board of directors feels that it has a solemn mandate . . . to do nothing whatever to alter the distinctive traditional position which the seminary has maintained throughout its history...